Here's the question. What will life be like when oil goes scarce. The writer, James Howard Kunstler, provides an extremely plausible answer.
I admit it, I'm a sucker for Doomsday scenarios. I'd be interested in hearing from our resident skeptics on the picture Kunstler paints.
There may be one ray of hope for locals:
In my opinion the overall trend will benefit the smaller cities and towns, but only those that can maintain a relationship with productive farming hinterlands or trade via water. The implications for land-use regulation are obviously huge.
Unfortunately, I don't think we've got enough local farmland left. Perhaps Mr. Karp should go Green Acres and erect a farm along the river. Ultimately, that might be where the money is.
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The Dutch raise plenty of crops on limited land, often in greenhouses. When you buy a red,yellow, or orange pepper off season at Shaw's its likely to have come from Holland.
So wind or solar or geothermally heated greenhouses built locally can make the Newburyport area self sustaining in food. Also we can grow lots of things that can be stored for winter consumption that maybe aren't as trendy but filled colonial needs. Things like beans,squash, cabbages,etc. For those things its more a matter of reviving the cuisine they generated.
That's actually a nice image, some lovely greenhouses along the river. What a nice winter spot that would be.
Ooops, there I go, talking about urban planning again.
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